পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/২৩২

বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড শিরোনাম তারিখ - সূত্র ৮১। বাংলায় কি "চরম’ সিদান্ত নেয়া হচ্ছে? নিউ ইয়র্ক টাইমস ১৯ আগষ্ট, ১৯৭১ THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY AUGUST I9, 1971 A FINAL SOLUTION IN BENGAL The U.S. Proposal Would Strengthen The Pakistan Army in Guise of Aid By Alice Thorner Paris-Are we to understand that the United States has been exercising quiet but unremitting pressure upon Pakistan for a "final solution" in East Bengal? The proposa! made by the Nixon Administration calis for the stationing in East Bengal of a 156-man international relief and rehabilitation team! Pakistan's consent to this should not surprise us. The project to send in a United Nations group turns out to be a stratagem for salvaging the shaky regime of the West Pakistani generals under the guise of a humanitarian operation. Let us look at the concrete nature of the relief proposed. The U.N. force would be charged with "helping the Pakistani authorities alleviates the threat of starvation and disease." Who are the Pakistani authorities with whom experts from UNICEF, F.A.O. the World Food Program and W.H.O are expected to cooperate? Precisely the martial law administration of General Tikka Khan, whose troops deliberately destroyed food stocks, burned down markets and drove away peasants from their villages, thereby ensuring that rice would not be sown. The same soldiers, acting under the same military command, commandeered UNICEF jeeps for their own purposes and crippled the long-term field study on which the cholera research laboratory was engaged by seizing the riverboats the doctors used for visiting their villages. Similarly, (he task set for the U.N. Group of "rehabilitating homes and shelter" is complicated by the policy followed from March 25 to the present day by the Pakistani Army. Not only have the soldiers razed thousands of village and town dwellings, but they have in numerous instances incited non-Bengalis or other collaborators to lake over the houses and belongings of Hindus, Christians, Awami Leaguers, and intellectuals driven from their homes. Yet another aim of the U.N. "technical assistance," is lo"help restore confidence in the Hast Pakistani administration"! But the most revealing of all the jobs assigned to the U.N. experts is their responsibility to "help Pakistan restore communications and remobilize the province's private fleet of 40,000 river boats and 10,000 trucks." It is precisely in the cutting of transport lines that the Bengali guerrillas have begun to score notable successes. Striking from their sanctuaries across the Indian border, from their tiny "liberated" enclaves, from